Our second FMF selection is from a band I don’t really know that well. I found this track on Amazon.com (which is a great source of free mp3s) and Off The Record caught my ear. It sounds like a rock-reggae combination. Again, these downloads are completely legal. This one comes from Amazon.com’s site. My position is that if it is questionable at all, it won’t be linked here. I’m no expert on this band (I’d never heard of them before I heard this single) so I’ll just do a copy and paste from the A.V. Club’s review.

It’s both rare and marvelous to hear a good band make its first really great album. This hasn’t been an era for disciplined, focused LPs, which makes listening to My Morning Jacket’s Z—with its 10 fantastic tracks packed tightly into 47 minutes—so bracing that it’s hard to trust. Maybe Z is all surface, and will tear easily with repeated use. And isn’t it kind of choppy? My Morning Jacket usually follows a smoothed-out boom-and-twang sound, but Z is all over the map stylistically, and the songs don’t fit together too neatly. Or maybe they do. Better play it again. It’s not hard.
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The record is undeniably the work of My Morning Jacket—all grandeur and pounding heart—but Z’s take-a-shot spirit is bound up in the nutty, insanely catchy “Off The Record,” which stacks up a stolen surf riff, a reggae rhythm, lurching vocals, and an extended, spacey coda. At first it sounds too wild and beastly to be any good, but the hook is as infectious as freedom, and around the third time through the song, doubts dissolve. If it takes some time to adjust to, it’s only because it’s hard to recognize a classic right away.

Here’s the link where you can downlad an mp3 of Off The Record. If you like that, the CD is only $7.44 at Amazon.com.